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No injuries reported in Springwater barn fire overnight

Oct 22, 2021 , , , , by shlf

Springwater Fire and Emergency Services was busy with a large barn fire that happened overnight.

Emergency crews were called shortly before midnight Nov. 25 to Flos Road 5 between Crossland and Vigo roads.

No injuries were reported, but crews are still on the scene this morning.

Wasaga Beach and Tiny Township fire departments were also called to assist.

It’s the second fire in as many days, as a . That fire started around 4:30 p.m. at a barn on the 11th Line. The cause of that fire remains under investigation.

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‘I’m running out of ammunition.’ Peel’s medical officer of health looks at more curbs as region faces Ontario’s scariest COVID numbers

Sep 1, 2021 , , , , by shlf

Peel’s medical officer of health is “running out of ammunition” to control the epidemic in his region and warns of further restrictions if the curve doesn’t begin to bend.

Dr. Lawrence Loh said additional “closures or curtailments” to reduce person-to-person interactions are being considered and may be implemented in the coming days if Peel’s daily COVID-19 cases remain the same or continue to rise.

The warning comes as Peel region reports a COVID-19 test positivity rate of 11.8 per cent — by far the highest in the province and more than double the provincial rate.

“We’re running out of time,” Loh told the Star. “I’m running out of ammunition.”

In the last two weeks, Loh has beyond provincial controls, including a ban on wedding receptions and social gatherings in businesses like banquet halls, and that could see employers face fines of $5,000 per day for not co-operating with outbreak investigations.

He has also repeatedly urged Peel residents to only leave home for essential reasons and to not socialize with anyone outside their household.

Yet the , putting hospitals, long-term-care homes and other vulnerable populations at risk, Loh said.

“We need people to hunker down over the next two to four weeks to cut down on the number of interactions,” he said. “But at a local level, I’m running out of ways to manage a decrease in the number of interactions in my community.”

Premier Doug Ford on Wednesday can be expected Friday for Peel, Toronto and York, saying “the virus is spreading at an alarming rate in these areas.”

Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie echoed Loh’s concerns at a Wednesday press conference and also hinted at further public health measures, saying Peel is facing a “sobering reality” with widespread COVID-19 transmission where “the virus is controlling us.”

Crombie said Mississauga’s current test positivity rate shows nearly eight per cent of COVID-19 test are coming back positive. She also pointed to a rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations in Peel and the growing number of outbreaks in congregate settings as among her top concerns.

Peel currently has 11 long-term-care homes, five retirement homes and four group homes in outbreak, Crombie said. One long-term-care home currently has more than 90 residents and 60 staff who have tested positive for the virus, she said.

At Trillium Health Partners, the two-hospital system is nearing capacity and is caring for 42 patients with suspected COVID-19 and 60 confirmed COVID-positive patients, 12 of whom are in intensive care, she said.

“That’s 114 rooms being used for just COVID,” she said, adding that staff are preparing for more cases, and that while elective surgeries have not yet been cancelled that prospect is “a growing concern.”

Crombie called the situation at William Osler Health System, which includes Brampton Civic Hospital, “even more dire,” saying the hospital is in gridlock with a total of 120 patients who are COVID-positive or who are awaiting COVID tests.

Osler president and CEO Dr. Naveed Mohammad said the hospital system is facing less pressure this week after starting on Nov. 6, and postponing some elective outpatient surgeries at its Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health and Wellness.

“We are holding our head above water but we’ve had to manage and move things around on a day-by-day basis,” he said. He added that he shares Loh’s concern about Peel’s local epidemic and supports Peel Public Health’s recent additional measures and restrictions.

Mohammad said the recent small drop in COVID-19 cases in Peel might be related to the three-day closure of one of Brampton’s busiest testing centres after it was damaged in a weekend windstorm. The centre, which reopened Wednesday, typically processes more than 600 tests a day, with a recent test positivity rate of 19.8 per cent.

“Even though we transferred some people to Peel Memorial (to be tested), some of the lower case numbers in the last couple days may have been the result of that testing centre’s temporary closure. My fear is that because we were hampered for the last three or four days, cases may have been artificially low.”

At a Wednesday morning press conference, Loh said there are nearly 2,000 active COVID-19 cases in Brampton, with the city adding 200 new cases a day.

“This deeply concerns me. If even 10 per cent of those individuals require hospitalization our hospitals will continue to be challenged.”

On Friday, Peel Public Health abandoned some aspects of its contact tracing after facing a growing backlog of new cases, Loh said. Since mid-October, shore up its tracing but even that wasn’t enough to keep up, he said.

The new streamlined process, which focuses on high-risk exposures and asks some people to notify their own close contacts, is reaching people with new COVID-19 infections more quickly and has cut the backlog by 30 per cent, Loh said.

Colin Furness, an infection-control epidemiologist at the University of Toronto, said Peel creates the perfect storm for COVID-19 with its high proportion of large households, and some areas of the region densely populated with essential workers.

“It is not about local public health leadership and it’s not about residents not caring,” he said. “We knew by May where COVID spreads and how COVID spreads. We could have, as a province, taken steps with increased mobile testing and community engagement, and the province didn’t.”

Furness suggested it might be time for Peel to ask the federal government for more supports, beyond the voluntary it committed to earlier this month, rather than wait for provincial help.

Loh said he wrote a letter two weeks ago to Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. David Williams, to highlight that paid sick leave “would be a significant assistance to reducing transmission” in Peel region.

The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area mayors and chairs on Tuesday said more supports are needed to ensure workers without sick-pay benefits can be tested for COVID-19 without fear of losing income.

Crombie on Wednesday told reporters that Peel has had 116 workplace outbreaks since September and currently has 80 active workplace investigations. Crombie said she is calling on all levels of government and all private sector leaders to come together to “find a way to give workers confidence so that they won’t be penalized for getting tested, getting sick or self-isolating to stop the spread of COVID-19.”

With files from Ed Tubb

Megan Ogilvie is a Toronto-based health reporter for the Star. Follow her on Twitter:

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‘I was stunned to find out how expensive you are’: Planning consultant lays out options for Collingwood official plan

Aug 30, 2021 , , , , by shlf

Collingwood’s next official plan should focus residential and commercial development to its existing retail corridors.

That includes, notably, Collingwood’s historic downtown, which should receive further protections and recognition of its importance to the community, recommends the town’s planning consultant, Ron Palmer of The Planning Partnership.

Palmer presented councillors with recommendations to consider as part of the town’s updated official plan, including that it reflect a planning horizon into the mid-2040s so that it is consistent with provincial and county planning policies.

The next steps in the official plan will be a series of public workshops in the next week, followed by a presentation of the draft plan to council in early 2021.

Palmer said the official plan should focus around a series of values for Collingwood, including walkability, inclusivity, healthy lifestyles, sustainability, and quality urban design.

It should also focus intensification efforts to community centres and corridors to reduce the need to intensify in existing neighbourhoods.

The approach to protecting the downtown in the past — such as restricting certain commercial uses, including banks, to the core — has worked, he said, but he also wanted to see broader permissions for commercial uses throughout the community.

That includes allowing for residential within the commercial corridors, “and talk about new development in the terms of compatible development.”

There are also recommendations on how to encourage — and measure the success of — sustainable development such as ‘green’ building technologies, with the potential of the town offering some kind of incentives.

One of the key elements of the plan will be to find ways to ensure Collingwood is affordable for a broad demographic. Palmer said the issue of housing was one he heard the most about during the public input process.

“I was stunned to find out how expensive you are relative to other municipalities in southern Ontario,” Palmer said, referring to his research into local real estate prices. “You have a significant dependence on low-intensity, single-attached and very expensive housing.”

Palmer told councillors that tools could be put in the official plan compelling developers to build a range and mix of housing as part of their projects — including affordable housing. However, he added, that still relied on the province to approve the mechanics of how that’s implemented, and whether Collingwood would be permitted to use that tool.

Other elements the council can consider in the official plan would be to “up the bar” when it comes to urban design, and how the architectural control process can be expanded through the town’s comprehensive zoning bylaw.

A heritage conservation section could also be added to the urban design manual, and new development could be integrated into the heritage character of areas such as the downtown.

“That doesn’t necessarily mean it has to mimic historic built forms, but it means it has to be compatible, and understand what makes Collingwood historically important,” he said.

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Essa man charged with breaking into vehicles near forests, construction trailer

Aug 13, 2021 , , , , by shlf

The Nottawasaga OPP detachment has arrested a local man who is allegedly responsible for breaking into vehicles in Essa and the Barrie area.

The 32-year-old man was arrested after police searched a home in Essa Township on Oct. 28.

Police said the man stole numerous items, including credit cards, from vehicles throughout September that were parked outside the County of Simcoe forests in Essa Township, and also forests in the Barrie area.

Police said the credit cards were used to purchase items at stores in Barrie. In one case, the suspect was seen using a stolen card and pawning a stolen item at a pawn shop.

Police also obtained security footage of the man breaking into a construction trailer in Essa Township.

He was charged with two counts of possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000, one count of use of credit card, one count of theft under $5,000 from a vehicle, one count of trafficking in stolen goods under $5,000, and one count of fraud under $5,000.

He was released on a promise to appear for a future court date.

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Premier Doug Ford defends new COVID-19 guidelines for business openings

Aug 3, 2021 , , , , by shlf

Premier Doug Ford is pushing back at health experts panning his for COVID-19 restrictions as the seven-day average of cases hit another record and deaths surged 61 per cent in the last week.

A number of epidemiologists, doctors and critics are questioning the new guidelines given persistently high levels of new infections despite lower testing, high case positivity rates, and rising fatalities.

“It’s easy to sit back and be a pundit or an armchair quarterback,” Ford said Wednesday, a day after he unveiled the with Ontario’s chief medical officer Dr. David Williams.

The premier maintained the government and its scientific advisers consulted widely on the plan, which he said is aimed at setting out clear criteria for when public health measures should be increased or eased.

Fuelled by 987 new infections, the rolling seven-day average of cases reached an all-time high of 972 while another 16 deaths brought the total to 74 in the same time frame, up from 46 fatalities in the previous seven days.

Eleven of the new deaths were in residents of nursing homes vulnerable to invading infections — one reason, along with keeping schools open, that the government has long argued community spread of COVID-19 must be kept low.

But experts maintain it is alarmingly high, and associate medical officer of health Dr. Barbara Yaffe acknowledged outbreaks increased 10 per cent in the last week, including in long-term care where some staff have been going to work sick and spreading the virus.

“It is obvious that the overall picture has worsened over the last month,” said Dr. Irfan Dhalla, an internist and vice-president at St. Michael’s Hospital.

“It is definitely not the time to be easing restrictions.”

Despite cases higher than last month when Ford pushed Toronto, Peel, York and Ottawa into modified Stage 2 with a ban on indoor dining and closures of gyms and theatres, those restrictions will end starting Saturday, except in Toronto which is waiting until Nov. 14.

“This is a turning point,” warned University of Toronto infection control epidemiologist Colin Furness, predicting the increased interactions in places like restaurants, bars and gyms will lead to further growth in cases.

“We are hurtling toward a lockdown,” Furness said.

Ford’s plan establishes five categories of COVID-19 severity, from mild to severe. It sets thresholds such as the number of cases per 100,000 population to determine which stage each of the province’s 34 health units are in and what restrictions should apply.

Health Minister Christine Elliott said the new guidelines that are needed to maintain a balance between safety, the economy and mental health because the virus will persist at least until a vaccine is widely available.

“We need to learn how to deal with it, how to live with it,” she told the legislature’s daily question period, later adding changes can be made to the plan if there is a “huge increase” in cases.

“We do have the capacity in our health-care system.”

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said that’s a risky approach given high levels of infection, including a case positivity rate of almost four per cent.

“The last thing we want is to get to a point where things are overloaded and overwhelmed and it’s the government’s job to stop us from getting there,” she told MPPs.

Under the new guidelines, there are increased protections, with last servings of alcohol in bars and restaurants at 9 p.m., closing time an hour later and a maximum of four people per table. In gyms, capacity limits are lower and patrons must be at least three metres apart, an increase in distancing from two metres.

Elliott urged residents check the province’s revamped COVID-19 “dashboard” of daily statistics at to “make their own decisions about whether they want to go out to dinner in a restaurant, whether they want to go and work out in a gym.”

Outside of the Atlantic Provinces, Elliott said federal figures show Ontario has the lowest level of cases per 100,000 in the country at 56.

With 299 new cases reported Wednesday, at 94.3, well ahead of Toronto at 72.2 per 100,000 even with 319 new infections.

York had 85 new cases, Durham had 62, Halton had 47 and Hamilton had 32. Testing remained low, with labs across the province processing 28,567 samples Tuesday, just over half the daily capacity.

Rob Ferguson is a Toronto-based reporter covering Ontario politics for the Star. Follow him on Twitter: